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N in PokeSpe isn't bad but I mostly don't like how unexpressive he is outside of a small smile.

We should blame Ghetsis for that. As for another unpopular opinion.
It would have been better if Kusaka rewrote the whole HGSS arc. It didn't make much sense and using Celebi for the 3rd time as deus ex machina is getting too old and this time the deus ex machina was very useless. Giovanni could have Googled a cure for his disease and Pichu was even more pointless. Kusaka could have come up with something better than that.

We should blame Ghetsis for that. As for another unpopular opinion.
It would have been better if Kusaka rewrote the whole HGSS arc. It didn't make much sense and using Celebi for the 3rd time as deus ex machina is getting too old and this time the deus ex machina was very useless. Giovanni could have Googled a cure for his disease and Pichu was even more pointless. Kusaka could have come up with something better than that.

You realize what an unpopular opinion is right? I'm afraid more people than you'd expect would agree with you.

Idk. They're already doing things that are way beyond their maturity levels what with the whole "saving the world" part.

Though related to that, another unpopular opinion I have is that Magical Pokemon Journey really shouldn't be considered a romance comic. Sure it follows Hazel's attempts to snare Almond, but it's also not the point. It's really a "slice of life" series, and shows a very fascinating side of the Pokemon world.

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You mean like how they're eleven and saved the world in addition to being clever and resourceful for their age. Seriously, they must have (had) the best parents ever.

What are they going to do? Date for seven years until they are legally old enough to marry? I would understand if they were to have an on and off relationship, but we will never see it so there is no way we will actually believe it (show don't tell).

What are they going to do? Date for seven years until they are legally old enough to marry? I would understand if they were to have an on and off relationship, but we will never see it so there is no way we will actually believe it (show don't tell).

How do we know what the legal age for marriage in Pokemon Special is? Hell, Takashi Shudo said that ten year olds in the Anime can marry (in the novelizations by him). It's practically non-canon but he was likely considering it.

I'm just saying that the Pokemon world isn't like ours. No duh, Sherlock.

How do we know what the legal age for marriage in Pokemon Special is? Hell, Takashi Shudo said that ten year olds in the Anime can marry (in the novelizations by him). It's practically non-canon but he was likely considering it.

I'm just saying that the Pokemon world isn't like ours. No duh, Sherlock.

I do agree on the "show don't tell" thing.

I based my numbers on the legal minimum age for marriage in Japan. It is 18 for boys and 16 for girls with parental consent. Without parental consent, the age is 20. Since the land masses that the Dex Holders live on are based on Japan (with the exception of Unova), I went with the minimum age in the country that the regions are based on.

I would like to know what novelization you are talking about. It would be nice to have something to destroy and nitpick for the hell of it. Getting married at the age of ten sounds stupid. The human mind isn't even fully developed until the age of 21.

I based my numbers on the legal minimum age for marriage in Japan. It is 18 for boys and 16 for girls with parental consent. Without parental consent, the age is 20. Since the land masses that the Dex Holders live on are based on Japan (with the exception of Unova), I went with the minimum age in the country that the regions are based on.

Makes sense. But just because they're based on Japan doesn't make them actually Japan. (At least not past gen II, where real world references were stopped being made.)

I would like to know what novelization you are talking about. It would be nice to have something to destroy and nitpick for the hell of it. Getting marrie[quod at the age of ten sounds stupid. The human mind isn't even fully developed until the age of 21.

Here. (Thank goodness none of this crap is actually canon. Marrying, paying taxes at 10? What kind of sick world is this place?

Kinda minor but I don't like how no Dexholder managed to win all the Super Contest ribbons. In the manga, ribbons are treated like badges (so are symbols and kinda medals) and stuff like that are always collected by at least one Dexholder in full so I didn't like how the Super Contest ribbons got the cold shoulder.

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Here.(Thank goodness none of this crap is actually canon. Marrying, paying taxes at 10? What kind of sick world is this place?

Sick in the Pokemon world? Heck, 10-year olds are allowed to go off on journeys fighting monsters and battling criminals without parental guidance. Heck, FIVE year olds are seen on Pokemon journeys without adult supervision (basing this off of trainers like Tubers, School Kids and even Preschoolers like in BW and twins). If kids that young are allowed to do stuff like this that real-life Americans can't do until they're at least 18, then I wouldn't be surprised if the Pokemon world consider 10-year olds adults.

Makes sense. But just because they're based on Japan doesn't make them actually Japan. (At least not past gen II, where real world references were stopped being made.)

Here. (Thank goodness none of this crap is actually canon. Marrying, paying taxes at 10? What kind of sick world is this place?

While it is based on the anime and not on the manga and is therefore not canon in the continuity we are talking about, I am so glad that barely anyone knows about this. That was even worse than the whole of Volume 43, second only to the Mass Effect 3 ending really.

And now I'm questioning whether or not I'm truly over that whole thing. Thanks for that Takashi Shudo, you just ruined the rest of my night.

I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things, but the whole "a full adult in the eyes of the law at the age of ten" is stupid. The only universe where it works is in Mass Effect with the Salarian race. They have a faster metabolism and therefore age more quickly. The average life expectancy for them is the age of forty, so therefore they age and get intelligent more quickly to make up for the sort lifespans. In Mass Effect 2 we find out that Mordin Solus' nephew is 16 and getting his tenure at a major university. This makes sense for the Salarians. For humans, even in a whole different universe like Pokemon, this would not make sense. We live to 80 on average, not 40. We age twice as long as Mass Effect's Salarians.

Makes sense. But just because they're based on Japan doesn't make them actually Japan. (At least not past gen II, where real world references were stopped being made.)

There've been plenty of real world references since then.

Also my big quibble with Shudo's worldview is his thing about pokemon suddenly popping into existence in recent history. Even in PokeWake, where the first chapter has humans encountering pokemon only about ten years pre-game (something that's contradicted elsewhere in the same series, with another chapter having them being very well-known and commonplace somewhere around 30 years ago, but Pokewake is basically a series of short stories and may not have an overarching canon), pokemon have still BEEN there. Besides, it goes against the games, where pokemon have existed on earth for at least 100 million years and have existed elsewhere since the beginning of the universe and probably before. Even the games out at the time he wrote that had them around the Mesozoic era.

But I guess this is supposed to be about manga stuff, huh.

Anyway, ok. My unpopular opinion again--Phantom Thief 7 would work better as a side game than a manga. It would make a good platformer, I think.

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Also my big quibble with Shudo's worldview is his thing about pokemon suddenly popping into existence in recent history. Even in PokeWake, where the first chapter has humans encountering pokemon only about ten years pre-game (something that's contradicted elsewhere in the same series, with another chapter having them being very well-known and commonplace somewhere around 30 years ago, but Pokewake is basically a series of short stories and may not have an overarching canon), pokemon have still BEEN there. Besides, it goes against the games, where pokemon have existed on earth for at least 100 million years and have existed elsewhere since the beginning of the universe and probably before. Even the games out at the time he wrote that had them around the Mesozoic era.

But I guess this is supposed to be about manga stuff, huh.

Anyway, ok. My unpopular opinion again--Phantom Thief 7 would work better as a side game than a manga. It would make a good platformer, I think.

The idea was still in its infancy and hardly any of them actually made into the anime but they were interesting nonetheless despite the fact that they barely make any sense.